Business Settings in BillBook allow users to configure essential business details, tax settings, sales preferences, and inventory controls to match their operational needs. 🚀🏢

📌 Business Information Settings #

✅ Go to → Settings → Business Settings

Here, you can configure:

• Business Name 🏢
• Start Date 📅
• Default Profit Margin 💰
• Currency & Timezone 🌍
• Business Logo 🖼️
• Financial Year Start (January/April) 📊
• Tax Information 🏷️

🔢 Product SKU Prefix #

✅ Enable Product SKU Prefix to auto-generate SKU numbers with a prefix.
✅ If enabled, the system will automatically append the prefix when adding new products.

📌 Example: If the prefix is “BB-“, the SKU for a new product could be BB-001.

💰 Default Discounts & Credit Limits #

✅ Business Setting → Contact → Default Credit Limit

• Sets the default credit limit for new customers & suppliers.

✅ Business Setting → Sale → Default Sale Discount

• The default discount applied to all sales in POS & Add Sales Screen.

🛒 Sales Settings & POS Preferences #

✅ Sales Item Addition Method:

• Add item in a new row → Adds products separately in the POS cart.
• Increase item quantity if it already exists → Updates the quantity instead of adding a new row.

✅ Amount Rounding Method:

• Defines whether product prices should be rounded to whole numbers or decimals.

✅ Minimum Selling Price Restriction:

• Prevents selling below the set selling price.
• Can sell at a higher price but not lower.

✅ Enable Inline Tax:

• Shows price including tax on the POS screen.
• Go to Business Settings → Tax → Enable Inline Tax.

✅ Enable Sales Order:

• Enables the Sales Order feature for managing customer pre-orders.

🔄 Editing Transactions & DataTable Preferences #

✅ Limit for Transaction Edits:

• Set the number of days within which transactions can be edited (default: 30 days).
• Increase this in Business Settings if required.

✅ Datatable Entry Selection:

• Set the default number of entries displayed per page in reports.

📦 Inventory & Overselling Control #

✅ Allow Overselling of Products:

• Enable this option to sell products even when they are out of stock.
• Warning: If overselling occurs, profit may show as negative for those products.

📌 Useful for businesses that accept pre-orders or backorders.

🚀 Why Use Business Settings in BillBook? #

✅ Configures core business details & tax settings ⚙️
✅ Automates product pricing, discounts, & transactions 🏷️
✅ Customizes sales preferences for POS & orders 🛒
✅ Enables flexible inventory & overselling options 📦

With BillBook’s Business Settings, businesses can tailor the system to fit their needs effortlessly! 🚀🏢

Let me know if you need any refinements! 😊